Video Problems for Precision 390

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:25:19PM -0500, John Arends wrote:
> Sorry to dig this up again, but I have more time to play with this and 
> am really hoping to resolve my video issues with with RHEL5.
> 
> I'm doing an rpmbuild --rebuild dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12.x86_64.src.rpm 
> so I can run the driver on my 32 bit RHEL5 system.
> 
> I'm now running rpmbuild as root instead of using sudo so I have root's 
> path, and it gets me a bit further, but now I get this:
> 
> Tarball location: 
> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/169.12/tarball/nvidia-169.12-kernel2.6.18-8.el5-i686.dkms.tar.gz
> 
> DKMS: mktarball Completed.
> + for i in 2.6.18-8.el5 2.6.18-53.el5
> + '[' -d /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5 ']'
> + dkms build -m nvidia -v 169.12 -k 2.6.18-53.el5
> 
> Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 cannot be found at
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/build or /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/source.
> You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32245 (%build)
> 
> 
> I'm currently running a newer kernel:
> 
> Linux my-machine 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 07:18:21 EST 2008 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> There is no build or source dir in the 2.6.18-53.el5 directory. I tried 
> adding both of them as simlinks to the source and build dirs in the 
> 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 dir, but that didn't help.
> 
> Would I be better off switching to a non-Dell nvidia driver? I really 
> need working video.

$ sudo yum install kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.el5

then try it.

kernel-headers != kernel-devel (though that isn't obvious).

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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